From: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
To: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>, Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Cc: "Karl Mehltretter" <kmehltretter@gmail.com>,
"Boqun Feng" <boqun@kernel.org>, "Gary Guo" <gary@garyguo.net>,
"Björn Roy Baron" <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>,
"Benno Lossin" <lossin@kernel.org>,
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"Alice Ryhl" <aliceryhl@google.com>,
"Trevor Gross" <tmgross@umich.edu>,
"Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@kernel.org>,
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"Tamir Duberstein" <tamird@kernel.org>,
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"Onur Özkan" <work@onurozkan.dev>,
"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
"Linus Walleij" <linusw@kernel.org>,
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"Bradley Morgan" <brads@mainlining.org>,
"Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
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"Justin Stitt" <justinstitt@google.com>,
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Subject: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: rust: Enable Rust support for ARMv5TE
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2026 11:38:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261003093827.77857-3-kmehltretter@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261003093827.77857-1-kmehltretter@gmail.com>
HAVE_RUST is currently selected for CPU_32v7 only. The
arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi target used for ARMv7 emits ARMv6
instructions (+v6), so it cannot be used for ARMv5. Use rustc's
built-in armv5te-unknown-linux-gnueabi target instead. It keeps the
Linux EABI (no short enums, unlike the -none-eabi targets) and is
soft-float and strict-align.
Kernels that also contain ARMv4 or ARMv4T CPUs are built for the
lowest architecture and stay excluded. CPU_32v5 also covers the ARMv5T
ARM1020. C code is already built with -march=armv5te there, so Rust
matches.
The kernel crate implements atomics through the C helpers rather than
core::sync::atomic, so the missing atomic instructions on ARMv5 do not
matter. The only gap was the 2-byte xchg() added by "ARM: cmpxchg:
support 2-byte xchg() on pre-ARMv6 CPUs".
core::sync::atomic types up to 32 bits still compile on this target,
but LLVM lowers them to __sync_* libcalls which the kernel does not
provide. Nothing in the tree uses them. Such code would fail to link
on ARMv5 while it links on ARMv7.
Tested on v7.3-rc1 with clang 22.1.8, rustc 1.99.0 and bindgen 0.73.2
in QEMU versatilepb and on a Microchip SAM9X75 Curiosity board (both
ARM926EJ-S). The Rust samples, all Rust KUnit suites and the doctests
pass.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/CACRpkdYF0sVB2-qgy=GzETSR3+2sagVQPGdunDQDJrn8KqJorA@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/b13d37bd-ec68-4713-94e5-e9ed4d6a6354@gmail.com/
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/rust/arch-support.rst | 2 +-
arch/arm/Kconfig | 2 +-
arch/arm/Makefile | 4 ++++
3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/rust/arch-support.rst b/Documentation/rust/arch-support.rst
index 4f980815e92a..2193d8e1e156 100644
--- a/Documentation/rust/arch-support.rst
+++ b/Documentation/rust/arch-support.rst
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ support corresponds to ``S`` values in the ``MAINTAINERS`` file.
============= ================ ==============================================
Architecture Level of support Constraints
============= ================ ==============================================
-``arm`` Maintained ARMv7 Little Endian only.
+``arm`` Maintained ARMv5TE and ARMv7, Little Endian only.
``arm64`` Maintained Little Endian only.
``loongarch`` Maintained \-
``riscv`` Maintained ``riscv64`` and LLVM/Clang only.
diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index ffbc7f386131..f6b14d9f0e1f 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ config ARM
select MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE if SMP && ARM_LPAE
select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
select HAVE_RSEQ
- select HAVE_RUST if CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN && CPU_32v7 && !KASAN
+ select HAVE_RUST if CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN && (CPU_32v7 || (CPU_32v5 && !CPU_32v4T && !CPU_32v4)) && !KASAN
select HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR
select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
select HAVE_UID16
diff --git a/arch/arm/Makefile b/arch/arm/Makefile
index 573813ef5e77..ef94eae1f047 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/Makefile
@@ -150,7 +150,11 @@ endif
KBUILD_CPPFLAGS +=$(cpp-y)
KBUILD_CFLAGS +=$(CFLAGS_ABI) $(CFLAGS_ISA) $(arch-y) $(tune-y) $(call cc-option,-mshort-load-bytes,$(call cc-option,-malignment-traps,)) -msoft-float -Uarm
KBUILD_AFLAGS +=$(CFLAGS_ABI) $(AFLAGS_ISA) -Wa,$(arch-y) $(tune-y) -include $(srctree)/arch/arm/include/asm/unified.h -msoft-float
+ifdef CONFIG_CPU_32v5
+KBUILD_RUSTFLAGS += --target=armv5te-unknown-linux-gnueabi
+else
KBUILD_RUSTFLAGS += --target=arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi
+endif
CHECKFLAGS += -D__arm__
--
2.39.5 (Apple Git-154)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-03 9:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-03 9:38 [PATCH 0/2] " Karl Mehltretter
2026-10-03 9:38 ` [PATCH 1/2] ARM: cmpxchg: support 2-byte xchg() on pre-ARMv6 CPUs Karl Mehltretter
2026-10-03 10:12 ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-10-03 9:38 ` Karl Mehltretter [this message]
2026-10-03 10:24 ` [PATCH 2/2] ARM: rust: Enable Rust support for ARMv5TE Miguel Ojeda
2026-10-03 10:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-10-03 17:07 ` Karl Mehltretter
2026-10-03 20:54 ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-10-03 16:03 ` [PATCH 0/2] " Bradley Morgan
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